Catch incoming emails and send them to a web service (rather than just to a mail server) - ajax

Question

I would like to catch incoming emails and send them a web service (rather than just to a mail server).
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After some searching I found a way of getting new emails via polling - see below: This may be of some help to others. Is there a way to receive messages by SMTP? Perhaps by ISAPI ???
using Limilabs.Mail;
using Limilabs.Client.IMAP;
public ActionResult checkIMAPmail()
{
string rval = "not a sausage";
using (Imap imap = new Imap())
{
imap.Connect(<mail server>);
imap.Login(<username>, <password>);
imap.SelectInbox();
List<long> uids = imap.Search(Flag.Unseen);
foreach (long uid in uids)
{
byte[] ourBytes = imap.GetMessageByUID(uid);
IMail email = new MailBuilder().CreateFromEml(ourBytes);
rval = email.Subject + " [" + email.From + "][" + email.Text + "]";
}
imap.Close();
}
return Content(rval, "text/html");
}
See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/670183/accessing-imap-in-c-sharp
for other IMAP packages, although note the change to using byte[], above.
Given that Limilabs.Mail is a paid service, I finally used MailKit:
using MailKit;
public int checkIMAPmail()
{
int numEmails = 0;
try {
using (var client = new MailKit.Net.Imap.ImapClient())
{
client.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = (s, c, h, e) => true;
client.Connect(ourSmtpClient);
// disable the XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism.
client.AuthenticationMechanisms.Remove("XOAUTH2");
client.Authenticate(ourSmtpAdminUser, ourSmtpAdminUserPwd);
// The Inbox folder is always available on all IMAP servers...
var inboxFolder = client.Inbox;
var savedFolder = client.GetFolder("saved");
inboxFolder.Open(FolderAccess.ReadWrite);
for (int ii = 0; ii < inboxFolder.Count; ii++)
{
var query = MailKit.Search.SearchQuery.NotSeen;
foreach (var uid in inboxFolder.Search(query))
{
var thisMsg = inboxFolder.GetMessage(uid);
string thisDate = notNullString(thisMsg.Date);
string thisSubject = notNullString( thisMsg.Subject);
string thisBody = notNullString(thisMsg.GetTextBody(0)); // plain text
string thisFromName = "";
string thisFromEmail = "";
if ( thisMsg.From != null)
{
// just get the first
foreach( var mb in thisMsg.From.Mailboxes)
{
thisFromName = notNullString( mb.Name);
thisFromEmail = notNullString( mb.Address);
break;
}
}
numEmails += 1;
// move email to saved
inboxFolder.MoveTo(uid, savedFolder);
}
}
client.Disconnect(true);
}
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
log2file("checkIMAPmail Error: " + exc.ToString());
}
return numEmails;
}